Carol V. Lyons

First Year of Call1989 Ontario

Areas of Practice
Financial Services

Description
Counsel, Financial Services

Carol Lyons is a corporate / commercial lawyer whose practice emphasizes transactional work. She advises clients on establishing businesses in Canada; mergers and acquisitions; corporate reorganizations; the formation of strategic alliances, including divestment / outsourcing of business functions; and contract procurement, including requests for proposals (RFPs).

Carol specializes in working with clients in the insurance, health care and other regulated industries. She assists insurers and reinsurers with the regulatory approval process in the context of transactions and corporate changes, and advises on regulatory compliance generally. She also provides counsel on corporate governance and pension law matters.

In 1993, Carol was seconded to IBM Canada Ltd. for one year as legal advisor to IBM Business Development.

Carol served as corporate secretary for two property and casualty insurance companies from 1989 to 1994. Currently, she chairs and sits on various committees of a leading Canadian reinsurance company. She is also an advisory board member and audit committee member of an Ontario insurance reciprocal. Carol is a past board member of the Learning Disabilities Association of Ontario and participates on other charitable boards.